ArticleJournal of virology2017
Molluscum Contagiosum Virus Protein MC005 Inhibits NF-κB Activation by Targeting NEMO-Regulated IκB Kinase Activation.
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- Molluscum contagiosum virus protein MC089 inhibits interferon regulatory factor 3 activation.The Journal of general virology · 2024Article
- Molluscum Contagiosum Virus: Biology and Immune Response.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2024Review
- Classical swine fever virus NS5A protein antagonizes innate immune response by inhibiting the NF-κB signaling.Virologica Sinica · 2023Article
- Molluscum Contagiosum Virus Protein MC008 Targets NF-κB Activation by Inhibiting Ubiquitination of NEMO.Journal of virology · 2023Article
- The H240R Protein of African Swine Fever Virus Inhibits Interleukin 1β Production by Inhibiting NEMO Expression and NLRP3 Oligomerization.Journal of virology · 2022Article
- Protective effects of glaucocalyxin A on the airway of asthmatic mice.Open medicine (Warsaw, Poland) · 2022Article
- Exploiting viral sensing mediated by Toll-like receptors to design innovative vaccines.NPJ vaccines · 2021Review
- Molecular and genomic characterization of a novel equine molluscum contagiosum-like virus.The Journal of general virology · 2021Article
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- Icariin-induced inhibition of SIRT6/NF-κB triggers redox mediated apoptosis and enhances anti-tumor immunity in triple-negative breast cancer.Cancer science · 2020Article
- Rubicon: a facilitator of viral immune evasion.Cellular & molecular immunology · 2019Article
- Molluscum contagiosum virus MC80 sabotages MHC-I antigen presentation by targeting tapasin for ER-associated degradation.PLoS pathogens · 2019Article
- Different Subtypes of Influenza Viruses Target Different Human Proteins and Pathways Leading to Different Pathogenic Phenotypes.BioMed research international · 2019Article
- Molluscum contagiosum: an update and review of new perspectives in etiology, diagnosis, and treatment.Clinical, cosmetic and investigational dermatology · 2019Review
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Abstract
Molluscum contagiosum virus (MCV), the only known extant human-adapted poxvirus, causes a long-duration infection characterized by skin lesions that typically display an absence of inflammation despite containing high titers of live virus. Despite this curious presentation, MCV is very poorly characterized in terms of host-pathogen interactions. The absence of inflammation around MCV lesions suggests the presence of potent inhibitors of human antiviral immunity and inflammation. However, only a small number of MCV immunomodulatory genes have been characterized in detail. It is likely that many more remain to be discovered, given the density of such sequences in other poxvirus genomes. NF-κB activation occurs in response to both virus-induced pattern recognition receptor (PRR) signaling and cellular activation by virus-induced proinflammatory cytokines like tumor necrosis factor and interleukin-1. Activated NF-κB drives cytokine and interferon gene expression, leading to inflammation and virus clearance. We report that MC005, which has no orthologs in other poxvirus genomes, is a novel inhibitor of PRR- and cytokine-stimulated NF-κB activation. MC005 inhibited NF-κB proximal to the IκB kinase (IKK) complex, and unbiased affinity purification revealed that MC005 interacts with the IKK subunit NEMO (NF-κB essential modulator). MC005 binding to NEMO prevents the conformational priming of the IKK complex that occurs when NEMO binds to ubiquitin chains during pathway activation. These data reveal a novel mechanism of poxvirus inhibition of human innate immunity, validate current dynamic models of NEMO-dependent IKK complex activation, and further clarify how the human-adapted poxvirus MCV can so effectively evade antiviral immunity and suppress inflammation to persist in human skin lesions.
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